The annual Santa Claus Run fundraiser for Hungarian children appears to be an excuse to run half-naked through downtown Budapest.

The guy at back left didn't get the memo:

The annual Santa Claus Run fundraiser for Hungarian children appears to be an excuse to run half-naked through downtown Budapest.

Photo: Attila Kisbenedek, AFP/Getty Images

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Rejoicing over spilled milk:

Rajah the lion may be the most dignified animal at the Denver Zoo, but when milk is squirted on the grate of his pen, decorum goes out the window.

Rejoicing over spilled milk:

Rajah the lion may be the most dignified animal at the Denver Zoo, but when milk is squirted on the grate of his pen, decorum goes out the window.

Photo: Brennan Linsley, Associated Press

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Guess the reindeer are in the shop:

Santa Claus rides a two-horse "sleigh" during the White Lake Area Christmas
Parade in Whitehall, Mich.

Guess the reindeer are in the shop:

Santa Claus rides a two-horse "sleigh" during the White Lake Area Christmas Parade in Whitehall, Mich.

Photo: Natalie Kolb, Associated Press

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Children beg for biscuits

at a base camp held by French militants in Bossembele, Central African Republic.
French troops poured into the impoverished landlocked country Dec. 7 after President Francois Hollande
announced he was boosting a U.N.-mandated French force to 1,600 soldiers. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius
said nearly 400 people were killed in three days of violence.

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On top of ol' Smokies:

A composite photo shows rings of light made by stars as they wheel around Polaris, the North Star, over
Newfound Gap in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tenn. At an elevation of 5,046 feet, Newfound Gap offers
prime stargazing on clear, moonless nights.

Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and ousted president Mohammed Morsi clash with Egyptian riot police during a
demonstration in the streets of the El Zeitun neighborhood in Cairo. Police dispersed several rallies by Islamists, firing tear gas at the protesters.

A Christian man wielding a dagger chases a suspected Seleka officer, dressed in civilian clothes, near the airport in Bangui, Central African Republic. French troops prevented the mob from hanging the man. Both Christian and Muslim mobs went on lynching sprees as French peace keepers deployed in the capital.

In Kiev, an anti-government protester uses a sledgehammer to smash the statue of the man forever associated with the hammer and sickle - Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. The chaotic protest further raised tensions in the Ukrainian capital.

A girl held by her mother kisses a statue of former president Nelson Mandela at the Centre of Memory named for the South African leader in Johannesburg.

Bronz buss:

A girl held by her mother kisses a statue of former president Nelson Mandela at the Centre of Memory named for the South African leader in Johannesburg.

Photo: Muhammed Muheisen, Associated Press

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Bedouin relocation plans collapse:

A Bedouin woman sells her lambs at a market in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva. Israel had proposed to relocate 30,000-40,000 Bedouin, demolish about 40 Bedouin villages and confiscate of more than 700,000 dunums (70,000 hectares) of Bedouin land, but on Monday, the Israeli cabinet said the controversial plan was likely to be shelved because of a lack of support.

takes cover during clashes between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers. The Palestinians were protesting the building of a nearby Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank close to the Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh.